Sevier County completes comeback, downs East girls 51-42
Morristown East led by nine at halftime, but Sevier County caught fire and quickly erased the lead en route to a 51-42 Lady 69制片厂制作传媒楥anes loss.听
69制片厂制作传媒淪evier County came and took it from us in the second half,69制片厂制作传媒 East head coach Justin Combs said.听
The Lady 69制片厂制作传媒楥anes (9-3, 0-1 District 2-4A) held the high-powered Bearettes (8-1, 1-0) to just 15 points in the first half but gave up 36 in the second half as offensive struggles persisted and defensive dominance dwindled.听
69制片厂制作传媒淲e just have to be a little tougher, a little more competitive in the moment,69制片厂制作传媒 Combs said. 69制片厂制作传媒淪evier County is a great team, great program. We came out and punched them early, and they were going to punch back, and we had to have a response to that but just never did. We kind of lost our poise. And you got to give them all the credit in the world.听
69制片厂制作传媒淭hey played like a confident team who's been there, done that, and we're trying to get to that place. And I think it's time that we can and should, but we've got to believe that ourselves. So no moral victories here. We felt like we let one get听 away tonight that we could have won.69制片厂制作传媒
Hudson Cloninger led East with 14 points 69制片厂制作传媒 one point from her career high 69制片厂制作传媒 and was all over the boards. Harmony Sullivan added 13 after a two-game absence due to injury, Ella Wampler added eight and Hannah Hall seven.听
Hudson Cloninger (2) shoots a three in a loss at Sevier County. Cloninger had a team-high 14 points in the loss, Friday, Dec. 13.
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69制片厂制作传媒淗udson's played really well for us as of late,69制片厂制作传媒 Combs said. 69制片厂制作传媒淪he's had to carry the load with Harmony missing the last two games being banged up. I think she played two straight games where she never came out and played 32 minutes and has done some good stuff for us. That energy carried into tonight, even with Harmony back. So yeah, Hudson played really well. She's a warrior for us, and she'll give everything she has every time.69制片厂制作传媒
Still, the early season offensive struggles continued into Friday night.
Ella Wampler scored a bucket on the opening possession, but East failed to record a field goal for the next 7:45 until Cloninger hit a volleyball-line heave at the first-quarter buzzer to take a 9-8 lead.
It seemed that the Lady 69制片厂制作传媒楥anes found their groove in the second quarter, outscoring the Bearettes 15-7 and taking a 24-15 lead into the break thanks to a 10-0 run.听
However, Sevier County came alive in the second half and used a 14-0 run to lead 35-34 heading into the final period.听
69制片厂制作传媒淔irst-half defense was certainly as good as you can hope for, holding them to 15 points,69制片厂制作传媒 Combs said. 69制片厂制作传媒淚 mean, they're averaging 63 points a game. Offensively, got a lot of scorers and a lot of weapons. So to holding them to 15 in a half was as good as we could have hoped for. I think we69制片厂制作传媒檙e giving up about 38 points a game, which is great.听
69制片厂制作传媒淏ut something had to give between us. Tonight, with how we're scoring the basketball right now, you can't let a team get to the 50s on you because you're probably not going to have a chance to win. And that69制片厂制作传媒檚 exactly what happened.
East retook a 37-35 lead early in the fourth, but a 15-3 Sevier County run quickly reduced its chances late. The Lady 69制片厂制作传媒楥anes were forced to play the foul game, but they simply couldn69制片厂制作传媒檛 get the ball in the basket to threaten.
East now heads back into tournament mode as it prepares for the 5 Star Preps Classic in Knoxville before heading to Pensacola, Fla. for the Innisfree Hotels Beach Basketball Tournament.
69制片厂制作传媒淭hat's six games to try and find a little bit of a rhythm and start to kind of turn in the corner towards playing better offensive basketball,69制片厂制作传媒 Combs said. 69制片厂制作传媒淎nd then we got to find a way to keep our defensive intensity 32 minutes and not lose that focus when the when the play shifts away.69制片厂制作传媒
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